ST. SAPHORIN, SWITZERLAND
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People find relief where they can. As a dangerous heat wave baked the EU on July 31, Swiss children plunged into Lake Geneva, and a tourist took refuge under an umbrella. That same week, forecasters warned that the European record of 118.4 degrees Fahrenheit, set in Athens, Greece, in 1977, would be surpassed in Spain or Portugal.